DESIGN & MANUFACTURING

The future of building product manufacturing and fabrication

Seamlessly collaborate with clients, connect your product and factory data, and optimize your operations with integrated solutions for building product manufacturers and fabricators.

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Deliver the custom products your clients need

As the building industry undergoes a dramatic digital transformation, companies that manufacture and fabricate solutions for buildings face increasing pressure to deliver highly innovative and customized products and services–on time and on budget. To remain competitive, your team needs solutions that automate product development, connect manufacturing processes, and make it easy for your clients to specify your products into projects.

As a recognized global leader in Building Information Modeling (BIM), Autodesk is combining our expertise in BIM and product design to help manufacturers and fabricators like you build stronger partnerships and deliver greater value to your clients.

Why leading building product manufacturers choose Autodesk

Discover one platform for the building supply chain

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Collaborate with BIM

Provide BIM content to make it easier for your clients to specify your products into projects. Work inside building models to design in the context of the building. And exchange all this data in one seamless digital ecosystem to help all your stakeholders communicate more efficiently.

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Deliver customized solutions at scale

Whether you make standard, catalog, or completely custom solutions, ensure your products are perfectly matched to project requirements by automating product configuration or designing right inside the business model.

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Improve agility across your organization

You need to be able to meet even the tightest project delivery schedule and adapt to changing project requirements. Help improve agility–from the engineering department to the sales team–by digitalizing enterprise systems and optimizing production processes.

Solutions for building product manufacturers and fabricators

BIM collaboration for manufacturers

Collaborate with clients using centralized data in the BIM ecosystem, reference building data in your designs, and generate BIM content of your product designs.

Product lifecycle management (PLM)

Manage data and development processes with tools that adapt to your business. Start simply, scale easily, and realize the promise of connected people, processes, and data. 

Product design

Deliver breakthrough innovations with integrated solutions that help teams imagine, prototype, improve, and market-test new products more quickly than ever before.

Design automation

Capture and re-use engineering knowledge and intent to reduce errors and time spent on repetitive modeling tasks like product configuration and drawing creation. 

Factory simulation

Visualize your production processes and identify bottlenecks by modeling and simulating a variety of scenarios—then use the results to optimize your design for increased throughput.

Product data management (PDM)

Secure and control your intellectual property. Collaborate with your internal and external colleagues. Manage and track decision-making to automatically maintain your audit trail.

Building product manufacturing & fabrication software

Get Inventor + AutoCAD + Autodesk Fusion + more—Professional-grade tools for product development and manufacturing planning.


Professional-grade product design and engineering tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, visualization, and documentation.


Cloud-based 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software for product design


Plan, design, construct, and manage buildings with powerful tools for Building Information Modeling.


Cloud PLM to enhance workflows and improve collaboration across teams, partners, and suppliers.


FlexSim is 3D factory simulation software to help predict and improve operational performance.


Resources for building product manufacturers

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INFOGRAPHIC

2024 State of Design & Make

Digital transformation is driving business resilience, sustainability, and talent management. Explore these trends and key insights for building product manufacturers from the 2024 State of Design & Make report.

 

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E-BOOK

Maximize business growth

An uptick in construction projects are driving AEC firms to digitize their workflows. Learn how building product manufacturers are keeping pace with their customers to improve operational efficiency.

 

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REPORT

Drive innovation ROI

Innovation capabilities are essential in today's marketplace. Learn how organizations are approaching old problems in new ways that drive greater growth with AI and automation.

 

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WEBINARS

Explore on-demand webinars

Learn about industry best practices and get insights on how you can improve your processes with Autodesk design and manufacturing solutions. Explore new workflows in our extensive library of webinars.

 

Grow your business with Autodesk

As a global leader in the integration of architecture, engineering, construction, product design, and manufacturing processes, Autodesk can help you develop the capabilities needed to achieve your goals. Reach out today to schedule a business consultation.

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

What is the building product industry?

Building product manufacturers make products, equipment, and supplies that go in and around buildings, such as windows, doors, elevators, escalators, HVAC systems, light fixtures, kitchen fixtures, bathroom fixtures, and wood elements. Custom fabricators provide a mechanical design-to-manufacture service for bespoke or custom items, such as entrance canopies and facades, handrails, staircases, and curtain walls.

What software is used by building product manufacturers?

Building products manufacturers use a variety of software at different stages in the development process, industrial design software, mechanical 3D CAD, product lifecycle management (PLM), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), and visualization and rendering applications. 

How does BIM benefit manufacturers?

Building products manufacturers use a variety of software at different stages in the development process, industrial design software, mechanical 3D CAD, product lifecycle management (PLM), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), and visualization and rendering applications. 

How can building product manufacturers adapt to digital transformation?

Digital transformation is about connecting your entire organization with the data and insights needed for everyone to perform their job to the best of their ability. This brings together different disciplines within the company, enables a higher order of collaboration with your clients, and provides a foundation for automation that leads to significant improvements to overall throughput and productivity.